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Indian Removal
The Indian Removal Act is a law that was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to talk with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the belief that in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Suffrage
The beginning of the fight for women’s suffrage in the United States. The first gathering devoted to women’s rights in the United States was held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies. This experience, and her acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852. Soon after, she dedicated her life to woman suffrage. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Victor Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Debs organized the American Railway Union, which waged a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago in 1894. Later in life, Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involvement in WWII. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act of 1862, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. It said that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who was never against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. -
Social Gospel
It's a movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada -
Urbanization and Industrialization
From 1870 to 1900 the United States became the world’s industrial nation. It emerged as the leader in meatpacking, in production of timber and steel, and in the mining of coal, iron, gold, and silver. By the turn of the century, industrialization had transformed commerce, business organization, the environment, the workplace, the home, and everyday life. -
Political Machines
They did not prove successful in the long run because they concerned themselves only with power and immediate successes and did not address or solve long-term urban problems, such as working conditions. They were “successful” in the short term, but not in dealing with long-term issues. -
The Gilded Age
The term was coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
Popultism and Progressivism
The 1890s and early 1900s saw the establishment of the Populist and Progressive movements. Both were based on the people’s dissatisfaction with government and its inability to deal effectively in addressing the problems of the day. The supporters of both these movements had become especially outraged that moneyed special interest groups controlled government, and that the people had no ability to break this control. -
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair helped organize the American Civil Liberties Union and the League for Industrial Democracy. He ran unsuccessfully three times each for Congress and for governor of California. -
Haymarket Riot
It refers to the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
The Dawes Act
The law allowed for the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. The Hull house was a place where
immigrants of diverse communities gathered to learn, to eat, to debate, and to acquire the tools necessary to put down roots in their new country -
Andrew Carnegie
He owned his own bussiness, Carnegie Steel Corporation, the largest of its kind in the world. In 1901 he sold his business and dedicated his time to expanding his philanthropic work, including the establishment of Carnegie-Mellon University in 1904 -
William Jenning Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was a Congressman from Nebraska, three-time presidential candidate, and later Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. No doubt this is the most famous and the most effective speech ever delivered at a national party convention. The Democrats were debating the monetary plank in their platform. When young Bryan`s turn came to speak, a newspaperman scribbled a note on an envelope -
Klondike Gold Rush
Known as the Last Great Gold Rush, was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Teddy Roosevelt
During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment, which he led on a charge at the battle of San Juan. He was one of the most conspicuous heroes of the war. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
its a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
Dollar Diplomacy
From 1909 to 1913, President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox followed a foreign policy characterized as “dollar diplomacy.” The goal of diplomacy was to create stability and order abroad that would best promote American commercial interests. -
Ida B. Wells
Wells wrote many pamphlets exposing white violence and lynching and defending black victims. In 1909, she helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Wells-Barnett continued her fight for black civil and political rights and an end to lynching until shortly before she died. -
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
Permits Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.
17th Establishes the direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
18th Prohibited the manufacturing or sale of alcohol within the United States.
19th Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on sex. -
Federal Reserve Act
Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Also called Oil Reserves Scandal, in American history, scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall
